The Manitoba Labour Board ruled that Dynacare’s community specimen collection and laboratory testing and reporting functions must be maintained as essential services during a strike or lockout because their interruption would foreseeably threaten Manitobans’ health and safety. It rejected the union’s procedural fairness objection and directed the parties to negotiate an essential services agreement rather than setting staffing levels in this decision.
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Manitoba (Labour and Immigration) v Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, 2026 CanLII 102771 (MB LB)
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Held. It rejected the union’s procedural fairness objection and directed the parties to negotiate an essential services agreement rather than setting staffing levels in this decision.
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